some TEDTalks Videos

Pick "Player 7" or "Player 8" to bring up the video.


Just.Darn.Amazing.


If you can get past the wheezing and the comedy, some interesting thoughts on education and creativity.

It's a What?!

So, I found this while watching the commercial above, and just had to post it.

Top 10 Worst Business Sayings

I think I've heard most of these -- but would substitute "I'll ping you later" for #10 and "Things are looking good" for #8, in my experience...

(Image from Harvard Business Publishing, Daily Stat (12/12/2008).)

(Their Source: Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3532338/Thinking-outside-the-box-is-most-despised-business-jargon.html)

Service with a Smile

So, I told myself that I'd write a few blog posts to catch ya'll up on the happenings of the past few months. This isn't that post.

Today, it's easier just to post a video and a quick note to say that we helped out at the American Red Cross' "Holiday Mail for Heroes" this past weekend, and made CNN. Keep a close watch and see if you spot us! =)


12-06-2008 National Headquarters, American Red Cross, Washington, DC

Just. Plain. Awesome.

In case you forgot this about me, I love music and am pretty much a nerd when it comes to kewl tech stuff. I found this video while browsing a HD-capable video-sharing site (http://vimeo.com).

Watch this--you can't not be amazed:

HD Carol of the Bells - 2007 from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.
Awesome, huh?

I know there's more displays (and videos) like this out there. Feel free to share more with us in the comments!

[Update] You can't watch in HD from the embedded video player, but you can visit this page on the Vimeo site to get this in HD http://vimeo.com/610626

[Update] From BrianA on Facebook: "There is also a really cool house in murray. If you go to www.christmasutah.com you can see video's for the last couple of years. You should go check it out."

Cool drums

Back in middle school, I was introduced to the percussion competition called Drum Corps International (it probably helped that its initials were DCI--see #2...). Since that time, I have continued to be amazed at the cool things that can be done. In one of the many forwards (that come from he-who-shall-not-be-named) that come to our email account was the following clip. Needless to say, I was again impressed.

Watch the video yourself, and let me know what you think:

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